Corporate innovation has teamed up with rural will to usher in a green revolution in Upper Dungri and Jeetpur, two adjoining villages under Jorapokhar police station, 15km from Dhanbad.
The residents of Pind Dadan Khan and the adjoining areas have no other option but to consume highly contaminated rain water which gets accumulated in the dirty ponds.
The only water sources for the people of the area have been polluted by the human wastes that drain into the ponds during rains as these ponds lie in the proximity of the thickly populated areas.
Influence of interplanted species on N and P resorption efficiencies of companion species was studied in mixed plantations of various species combinations raised for revegetation of coal mine spoil.
Hindustan Copper plans to sell excavated waste rock used to lay roads and railway tracks, raising as much as $1.3 billion, traders estimate. The company is seeking buyers for about 200 million metric tons of rocks accumulated over the past four decades from mines at the Malanjkhand copper complex in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, chairman Shakeel Ahmed said.
Jaipur: Despite the state government and Rajasthan High Court prohibiting any blockage or obstruction of a natural water channel in the state, the government itself is accused of violating the norms by allotting a marble slurry dumping site in the water channel of a valley near the under-construction Chitrakoot Nagar International Cricket Stadium in Udaipur.
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Uranium from ores mined at the three mines - Jaduguda, Bhatin and Narwapahar (Jharkhand) - is processed in the mill and the waste emerges as tailings. The recorded radioactivity level in these tailings is very low, but to avoid any long-term effect of these tailings on the atmosphere, humans, cattle as well as native flora and fauna, the tailings are covered with 30 cm layer of soil.
Several fields in Ambeshi and Devulwada, Pale, were rendered uncultivable due to the mining silt in the area.
According to sources, the silt which was on the roads has entered into the fields, thereby damaging crops.
If the news of alleged illegal mining in Karnataka by the Reddy brothers has generated much controversy, not far behind is the mineral-rich state of Odisha. RTI applications filed in the Odisha Pollution Control Board (OPCB) and State Forest Department have disclosed that illegal mining worth above 2,000 crore is being carried out by Essel Mining & Industries Ltd of the Aditya Birla Group.
